skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was exactly my experience. It’s incredibly frustrating to search documentation only to be stuck with examples that are related, but don’t fit one’s exact situation, and don’t explain the underlying behavior.
I did, it was a genuinely good little lightweight UWP email app. Now they've turned it into a bloated ad-ridden Outlook webview app.
I haven't had any complaints, it's been plenty fast enough for multiple VMs, services, containers, and databases.
I've participated in a coaching and resume review program for many years. Most college students always struggled to write resumes, but at least they were aware of their shortcomings and reached out for help.

Something about ChatGPT has convinced a lot of them that they don't need help or even to put much effort into the process. They hate writing resumes, so they just dump some words into a ChatGPT prompt and copy-paste into a resumse.

To the inexperienced, the ChatGPT structure feels like brilliant, polished content magically appearing on their screen. They aren't looking at the content, but rather the structure, which ChatGPT can formulaically provide.

Then recruiters get their resumes and instantly recognize ChatGPT garbage, because it's their job to read resumes and they've become good at recognizing low signal to noise ratio ChatGPT output.

One of our local college programs had a company reach out and ask to be removed from their referral pipeline because the majority of the resumes submitted by their students were clearly ChatGPT drivel. It was a real blow to the people who had been working hard to set up these relationships and give the students opportunities to apply for.
It's sometimes important to remind ourselves that just because we can't see understanding in something doesn't mean there isn't understanding in it, and it might take effort on our part.

It's not a negative thing as much as an opportunity to grow if we ask ourselves to learn and see it as an opportunity.
I’ve seen teams destroy themselves by solving complex problems that didn’t need to be solved. Instead of solving the real problems, they imagined a problem that was more interesting and complex, and tried to solve that.
I use Outlook, not super nerdy, idnk
"I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke."
> Instead, it's like a friend giving you a preset excel spreadsheet where you plug in your competitors' price history and your price history and it spits out a number. Is it really illegal for everyone to use the same spreadsheet with the same math in it?

Yes, if the competitors are colluding to share their price history with competitors for the purposes of market manipulation.

> Another child comment of my original top level comment suggests the collusion was that, to use the algorithm at all, a rental property had to accept its output price at least 85% of the time.

That's one of several smoking guns. Even if the recommendations were not required to used but only for initial pricing, that's also a smoking gun.

No need to refer to comments, read the FTC memorandum, it cites their historical cases.
My suggestion is to focus on a fewer number of companies, instead of sending resume in bulk. When you narrow your choices you can study well and notice bugs or issues that need to be addressed. Fix them, send the results to someone in the company, it will increase your chances substantially.
With the printing press it makes sense, there's physical constraints that make things very difficult if you want to support a huge number of different characters. Those limitations don't exist anymore though.

On one hand we have systems supporting Unicode and just about every character imaginable, it's an example of using technology to go beyond the limitations of the past. You could have a system that supports emojis on street signs, but instead we're going the opposite direction and introducing artificial limitations that are even more restrictive than 500 year-old technology.
Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
At the moment there is no silver bullet home server, which is cost effective, widely available and has all the features everyone loves...

However, there is a board, that is pretty good in all categories, the

Gigabyte MC12-LE0 (50-70 bucks)
(with CPU Ryzen Pro 5650G - ~150 bucks)

Costs around 50-70 bucks, supports IPMI (remote management), Bifurcation, ECC-RAM, has 2.5G Ethernet and one NVMe port (although it is speed limited). With one PCIe card for about 20 bucks you can add 2 full speed NVMe. Medioker Idle Power consumption and strange stability issues are the "only" drawbacks - with a modern CPU (e.g. Ryzen Pro 5650) it's pretty hard to get under 20W Idle. Although many people report it works rock solid, there are also many reports of having issues with randomly turning off, BIOS upgrade fails and other hardware issues.

There are indeed Ryzen B550 boards, that unofficially support ECC and have lower power consumption than the MC12, but usually these boards lack internal remote management options and other server benefits.

Low power boards like Asrock N100DC-ITX are good, but lack support of SATA Ports and ECC RAM.

Industrial Boards like the ASRock IMB-X1231 (or other ASRock RACK / IMB series boards) are either way too expensive or impossible to buy anywhere.

Intel W680 Chipset boards are too expensive and ARM alternatives (e.g. Friendly Elec CM3588 NAS Kit, https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product%2Fprodu...) don't have support for ECC RAM, although OpenMediaVault is sometimes supported.

The "real deal" in my opinion are Fujitsu Boards with C246 chipset (e.g. Fujitsu D3644-B) or Gigabyte (C246N-WU2) - despite being older tech, these are really low on power consumption with pretty good performance and pretty stable. With these boards you can build a full steam spacemachine consuming <10W idle. Fujitsu also has remote management via Intel AMT (discontinued) or iRMT (a proprietary protocol).

Be aware that Fujtisu Celsius W550 Workstations and newer contain D3417, D3517 and similar Boards, but also a proprietary power header, so you can't use normal ATX Power Supplies without Adapter (e.g. Bojiadafast from Aliexpress).

So, my advice would be to get the Gigabyte MC12-LE0 or if available, Fujitsu D3x17/D3644-B series.
I live in a major Bay Area suburb and during power outages I don’t have cell reception. I can walk a bit and get some reception, but only for a day or so while the cell tower generator has fuel. My handcrank radio was dirt cheap and works great. Get yourself one.
Communism problem is that it goes together with authoritarianism and corruption.

Yes, you can get both of those things with capitalism, just look at Russia, but looks like they are more likely to happen with communism.

Authoritarianism is responsible for many people's deaths, while corruption is why things were so bad that it pushed for invention of this.

The reason why the glass is not popular right now is because we as consumers are perfectly fine with this. We let companies get away with it instead of voting with our wallets. Nearly all of us are guilty purchasing smart phones that won't last longer than 2 years, pre-paying for games when companies frequently stiffed us that way. Almost no one puts time to research which companies produce quality product so such manufacturers frequently go out of business.
Alternatives to flushing our waste with drinking water is worth some attention, but I far prefer a composting option to using so much energy to neutralize our poop and pee.

"Humanure" is easier and safer when we're not so numerous.
Guys what are your favourite smart plug? I need one with easy integration with grafana, not sucking, and shipment to EU country?
Great, even more ways for me to be distracted during the day :-)
Japanese has 3 counting particles for animals. The generic one is 匹 "hiki" (ippiki, ni-hiki, san-biki) for dogs, cats, insects, fish, etc. Larger animals like horses and elephants use 頭 "toh" meaning "heads". Birds and rabbits use 羽 "wa" which means "wings." There are various theories why rabbits get counted the same as birds, possibly because rabbit meat tastes like chicken.
... and then not have any of your usual development tools, environment, system layout, or repair techniques because you're inside someone else's "works on my system" that they threw over the wall.

It's obviously possible to debug what goes on inside a Docker image. It's just not something I'm particularly interested in dealing with, especially under duress.
I needed a reverse proxy the other week. OPNSense is my firewall. I tried traefik, but it was too complicated. So I installed caddy, and it was easy as pie. My .02
Type Safe Vuejs Router
If you’re reading HN, you’re so much nerdier than the average software user that the existence of super nerds is irrelevant
All: Please don't use HN for ideological battle. There are too many low-quality/predictable comments here. We want curious conversation, not sharp recitals.

I know it's hard when the topic is itself an ideological battle, but that's a good time to review the site guidelines, including this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Has anyone actually tried? I’ve searched for simple microwaves and can’t find any.
> mod_php was great for local iteration or when you wanted a very simple setup (and the same could be said about mod_python etc.), but most people have moved over to PHP-FPM nowadays: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HTTPD/PHP-FPM There's probably more recent information somewhere, but this pretty much covers it.

php -S localhost:8000

https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver...
Commercial air traffic density is much higher than it used to be a couple of decades ago. It's no longer just a question of navigating, but also of staying in your alloted volume of space during the flight.
> that to live next to a data center causes illness?

The claim is the construction is causing illness - the DC isn't yet built.
I feel often this is one of the major points in a trade-off: How likely is it that this choice will be thrown back in our face during the life of the application. Realistically many / most components get a rewrite soon enough. Or should have. And when they don't, it means they made back their cost many times over. After that, we don't have to actively look for trouble - we can at least modularize things somewhat so we don't have to rewrite the whole thing at once.
This is a very good analysis and doesn't fall into the trap most commentaries on stuff like this do: moaning about how something is bad without acknowledging any reasons for it, as if people are just arseholes. C.f. Electron, heavy websites, advertising, non-replaceable batteries, etc.
Bulldozing the mind 101
Wow, of course.. didn't think of video.

That video is great, a VCR tape collection of corporate demos by Jef Raskin's company, apparently for investors and resellers.

YouTube suggested a short, informal demo posted only 10 years ago, about 6 minutes:

https://youtu.be/jErqdRE5zpQ?si=A1kK2FhR9-LhoZIU

A bit less familiar with it so a quick and dirty video I suppose but a great demonstration of what it would be like to use one now.

Essential history! Thanks!
- Co-pilot for writing unit tests, renaming variables, asking for shell cmds

- gptscript for commit messages, MR comment ideas, etc.

- mods for piping a file and asking for recommendations, could do with gptscript too.

- Raycast for hotkeys to gpt-4 API or model running with Ollama

It's still super early, so I try different ways of using it every few months/weeks and keep around what works.
> cannabis, fentanyl, tramadol, formaldehyde and – according to some – ground down human bones.

I mean... the users will be lucky if some of the volume is a substance as harmless as bone, the rest of that list will kill you and shouldn't be casually mixed.

Formaldehyde in particular should simply be avoided, although I guess dying of cancer is a distant prospect for a fentanyl addict, and an unlikely one. More of a goal really.
Comprehensive Rust: free Rust course developed by the Android team at Google
Obligatory response: https://xkcd.com/538/

Sad but likely true.
(please prove me wrong, other than creating fake data that’s so convincing it will save your life in any ‘gut-wrenching’ situation, every time)

[edit: don’t get me wrong, I love truecrypt/veracrypt, literally use it every day]
Here’s our friends at Amazon vs FTC:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/jassy-bezos-oth...
I'm working on a r&d team dedicated to finding ways to repair modern cars at scale

As such, we get lots of car, mostly EV (but not only), up to 100k€/u

The Telsas are indeed not the worst

They are still boring af and not in the top of the basket
The nature of expect is that this is a bug. The person who wrote this code was wrong, they expected that this optional has Some value but it does not.

In most cases then, if you don't know this code very well, that's fine because it's not your bug. In the edge case that you just got handed a pile of poorly documented code somebody else wrote, perhaps over several years, well, at least you know what they thought is supposed to happen here and that they're wrong.

And no, I don't find it better to be told "It broke, break out a debugger and try to reproduce the fault". With this text we can revisit the Goose wrangling code and maybe, now that we're staring at it knowing a real customer saw this fault, we are inspired and realise that sometimes it won't find a Goose, then decide what to do about that.
I had never heard of SIRDS before. That's a very cool way to potentially show stereograms to folks that struggle to see them!
https://euromomo.eu

Productive population in EU (15-44) has higher mortality since 2021. Something killing us more then ever.
If you cannot change your semantic identifiers because you have shared them with the outside world, and they are not willing to follow your change, than encryption won’t make a difference, will it?
Is there anyone taking even the slightest pro-Palestinian angle whom you wouldn’t slander as being pro-hamas?
1. You are assuming just training a model on copyrighted material is a violation. It is not. It may be under certain conditions but not by default.

2. Why should we aim for harsh punitive punishments just because it was done so in the past?
Why humans play? Why animals play? Why someone plays with their fidgeting toy while doing nothing? Why we doom-scroll without any apparent aim? Why cats run without any purpose? Why woodpeckers peck satellite dishes for no apparent reason, or cuckatoos "shout" into containers to see how their voice change?

For no apparent function.

Does the fact that we, animals and insects play change the fact we're playing, even if there's no apparent reason/function?

I think not.
If only simplicity always meant easy to use. There would be no paradox if it did.

One big problem is that for any product/feature not used in isolation in a very controlled context, simplicity is often suboptimal, inflexible and limiting.

Complexity is often the result of building one thing that works well in a variety of situations, a lot of interoperable things or features to work (relatively) well together, or one thing with a lot of ways to interface with it. The worst case is all three - which is true for a lot of software.

The result is a simpler purchasing choice, buy the most flexible product, but at the cost of far more product complexity than any particular user needs.
Why not both? You’ll need to run a server either way.

HA can export data to Prometheus. Setting up and running HA is much easier than figuring out how to get a set of different smart devices to export metrics to Prometheus/Influx. Let HA deal with that.
TIL Panasonic makes bicycles! I have never seen one in the wild.
Santa: A binary authorization and monitoring system for macOS
I am surprised that 1 million allegedly buys that level of corruption and influence.

It seems strange it would only cost 1 million to make the association a corporate shrill for Stevia when diabetes as an issue costs billions to the US.

If you're going to forgo your princibles and be corrupt then at least get higher price for doing so!
I literally quoted the conclusion of the linked snopes article.
Thanks for the comment!

Wikipedia describes that here (in German): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SERO
If you like Caddy for it's ACME capabilities, then you might enjoy Traefik as well. It supports HTTP, TLS ALPN and DNS challenges and can be configured in one line as well.
Apologies if this question sounds rude, but what does your app have over ChatGPT? I tried asking ChatGPT a few therapy-style questions; the answers were a bit generic but I could see getting some interesting responses if I tried harder.

I'm curious what's required to build an AI app. I assume that you did not build your own LLM model from scratch; what did you program?

In any case, I would not deem anything from an AI reliable -- but an app where you could ask questions like "I'm in difficult situation X; what are some things I might try?" and where the cost of trying something that doesn't work out is low, seems like it could be interesting.
the article i linked to wasn't by snopes or on her web site; it was a 'straight dope' column from the chicago reader
I don't know a single techie person who uses Windows (other than for gaming), let alone Mail in Windows.

But the other replies are right. We're not really representative of the entire population, especially if you consider the developing world.
> The Chief Engineer of the Manhattan District, Colonel James C. Marshall, and his deputy, Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth D. Nichols, discovered that the electromagnetic isotope separation process would require 5,000 short tons (4,500 tonnes) of copper, which was in desperately short supply. However, they realized that silver could be substituted, in an 11:10 ratio of copper:silver. On 3 August 1942, Nichols met with the Under Secretary of the Treasury, Daniel W. Bell, and asked for the transfer of silver bullion from the West Point Bullion Depository. Nichols later recalled the conversation:

> He explained the procedure for transferring the silver and asked, "How much do you need?" I replied, "Six thousand tons." 'How many troy ounces is that?" he asked. In fact I did not know how to convert tons to troy ounces, and neither did he. A little impatient, I responded, "I don't know how many troy ounces we need but I know I need six thousand tons—that is a definite quantity. What difference does it make how we express the quantity?" He replied rather indignantly, "Young man, you may think of silver in tons, but the Treasury will always think of silver in troy ounces."
Maiden launch of Falcon Heavy with dual rocket landing
> Keep Alan Kay’s words in mind: “We aim to make simple things simple and complex things possible.” When solving the general problem makes complex things possible, that’s good. But it shouldn’t be at the expense of making simple things simple.

Great quote.
Was gonna say, I wonder if he still uses it now that it is that Outlook thing :)

I’ve been helping people to Thunderbird. Most people are like: Mail>Thunderbird>New Outlook thingy. Good enough for me ;)
Interesting to see that this has been flagged/dead and vouched back to life twice in 15 minutes. [update] And three times in 25 minutes.
Are there any other outlets broadcasting in Israel that have correspondents in Gaza?
Should’ve checked my own link instead of relying on memory — I might have some code to revisit on Monday. That’s insane, thanks for correcting me!
i'm trying to nudge Grafana into the direction of IoT/SCADA control, so we can be both, a great way to viz (data sources) and to control (data sinks). not personally a huge fan of having to recommend Home Assistant for that use case :)

(i work at Grafana Labs)
You are off base. The Zionists of Israel do not represent the Jews.

The Zionists might be committing a genocide — hence a comparison to Nazis might be justified — but there are many Jews protesting these war crimes.
I think this was more a generalisation about HN as a whole than directed at you.
> And class is hard to judge objectively.

Very simple, actually. $1 million+ in annual income or $10 million+ in assets is an objective starting point, all the way to mega billionaires like Musk and Bloomberg.
Flexbox CSS
This is why I’m sad we at the LibreOffice project decided to embrace Gtk. We ported hundreds of dialogs to Glade and GNOME decided to fuck us over by deprecating it.
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
Hmm interesting. Do you think deterministic simulation is a much more accessible approach than verification? Also curious what tooling you think is still missing/not up to par?
Solving problems that move the needle for the company in terms of customer experience, financials, or things like that are worth promotion. Sometimes these are complex problems. Sometimes not.

Software isn't an art project; it's a practical tool to solve practical problems.

Some of my more impactful changes haven't been all that complex; it was just a matter of knowing where and when to spend my time, based on working with our customer team, sales team, and directly talking to some customers.

One of my more praised changes was adding a link to our support backend that saved our customer team minutes of manual work every time. This was literally just adding a permalink: 3 minutes of work. Simple and low-complexity? Yes. But also impactful and moved the needle, and no one else had done it in the previous years.
Execs can only use E2EE for personal purposes, not business.
I asked if we have evidence because the author made an interesting point in a recent interview on the "Bankless" podcast:

"When we hear people like Tether saying we're successfully banking the unbanked, you can look at the median transaction over the Tron network, and it's between $100 and $300. If you looked at comparable numbers in the US for credit card transactions, the median transactions is between $40 and $80. And so, do you buy that they're banking the unbanked third world who are moving a lot more money around than people in the US do?"
> This is a bad strategy for a business. Price is the worst thing to compete upon.

What's the evidence for this? I know plenty startups who went down this path and are very successful - eg EmailOctopus is the one I'm most familiar with.

> Being really cheap is a red-flag to potentially good customers because they know you can't stay in business.

Doubt any business will do a solvency assessment based on the price you're charging. If you're a startup, they'll think it's a high chance you fail no matter the price you charge.